Showing posts with label arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arts. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

of cool video of artist painting without brushes

Amy Shackleton - Painting Timelapse: Amazing artwork by artist Amy Shackleton.

Amy works entirely without a paintbrush. Watch the artist work at 800x speed, creating a new urban landscape painting, "Terraced City."


About Amy Shackleton:
At only 25, Toronto based artist Amy Shackleton has exhibited paintings in New York, London, Toronto, Montreal and Calgary. Shackleton’s work was recently selected for purchase by the Colart Collection in Montreal. She was a finalist in the 2010 Signature Art Awards at Degree Art Gallery in London and nominated for the 2010 and 2011 Palm Art Awards in Germany. Articles about her exhibitions have been published in the Calgary Sun (Alberta), Le Devoir and La Presse (Quebec) and an exclusive interview with the artist can be found in The Dinner Jacket Online Magazine. Shackleton received her BFA Honours Degree from York University in 2008. She paints full time from her new studio space in Toronto
[via Slightly Entertaining]

Saturday, 5 June 2010

of oliver fricker, swiss consultant charged for vandalising train

Swiss consultant charged for vandalising train: Oliver Fricker was charged in court with breaking into a Singapore MRT depot along Xilin Avenue and spray-painting graffiti on a train. The offence was not immediately detected and the train plied its route in full view of commuters. Fricker was with a Briton identified as Lloyd Dane Alexander when he broke into the MRT depot. Alexander has left Singapore before the police report was filed.

The video taken by one of the commuters can be found on YouTube.


Photo via Oliver Fricker Facebook [suggested by Straits Times]
A Swiss business consultant was charged in court Saturday with breaking into a Singapore MRT depot and spray-painting graffiti on a train. Oliver Fricker, 32, was accused of committing trespass and vandalism in mid-May, and a district judge who described him as a flight risk set bail at $100,000. His passport was also impounded.

A worried-looking Fricker told the judge he needed a lawyer and asked that bail be lowered to US$40,000. But the judge cut him short and rejected the bail request, stressing the seriousness of the offence.

A police spokesman described Fricker as a company consultant but further details on him were not available from Singapore officials or Swiss diplomats. A man named Oliver Fricker is listed in the business networking website Xing as a senior consultant in Singapore working with a Zurich-based information technology firm specialising in the financial sector.

An American teenager, Michael Fay, garnered global headlines in 1994 when he was jailed and caned in Singapore after he was found guilty of vandalising several cars. Fay was caned despite a US appeal for clemency.

The graffiti had the words 'McKoy Banos'. [photo via]

See more photos at Asiaone

Other links:
- Wrong country for graffiti....?
- Facebook and the Straits Times

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

of 18 year old drew 60ft cock on roof of parents' million pound house

60-foot comedy painting on roof
An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60ft drawing of a penis on the roof of his parents' £1million mansion in Berkshire. It was there for a year before his parents found out. They say he'll have to scrub it off when he gets back from travelling.


[via reddit]

Sunday, 8 February 2009

of nude art clothed in protest

Nude art clothed in protest: CHINESE Internet users angered by censorship in cyberspace have dressed up images of famous renaissance nudes in a protest against Beijing's crackdown on 'vulgar' online content.
Images posted as part of the protest include Michelangelo's statue 'David' shown in a Mao suit while black socks and a strategically placed necktie were added to the artist's depiction of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The protest began last week after a user of the social networking site Douban.com complained that images of several paintings, including Titian's nude 'Venus of Urbino', had been deleted from an online photo album.

According to blogs on the site, Douban's administrators had told the user that posting pornography would endanger the site's operations.

Thursday, 5 February 2009

of singapore 9-year-old boy becomes famous. writes app for iphone

Nine-year-old computer whizz-kid writes application for iPhone: Nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen (林鼎文) writes applications for iPhone. His latest project, a painting programme called Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 4,000 times from Apple's iTunes store in just two weeks. Ding Wen, who is fluent in six programming languages including ActionScript and JavaScript, is thought to be the world's youngest Apple IIGS programmer.


Ultimate brainchild: The primary school pupil has written a painting program for the iPhone called Doodle Kids
Most children his age may draw pictures on paper with crayons, but nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen has a very different canvas. The primary school pupil from Singapore writes applications for Apple's iPhone. His latest project, a painting programme called Doodle Kids, has been downloaded over 4,000 times from Apple's iTunes store in just two weeks.

Hit: Doodle Kids has been downloaded over 4,000 times from Apple's iTunes store in just two weeks

iPhone users can draw with their fingers by simply touching the iPhone's touchscreen. They can create squares, circles, lines, triangles and stars of different sizes and colours. Pressing the space key animates the picture and pressing delete or shaking the phone clears it.

His father, Lim Thye Chean, a chief technology officer at a local technology firm, also writes iPhone applications.

Ding Wen says,
I wrote the programme for my younger sisters, who like to draw.
Other links:
- Nine-year old whiz-kid writes iPhone application
- Child's Play
- 新加坡9岁男童为iPhone开发应用

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

of singapore girl jessica gomes famous overnight with her body painting photos

Singapore girl Jessica Gomes famous overnight with her body painting photos: Singapore Agnes Tan points us to Jessica Gomes bodypainting photoshoot for Sports Illustrated. Attuworld says "Jessica Gomes spices you up".


Jessica Gomes, mother is Singapore Chinese, father is Portuguese, becomes famous overnight due to her body painting photos for the magazine Sports Illustrated. This is a series on bikini, but instead of wearing the real bikini, they draw the bikini on her.
Click here and here to see the Jessica Gomes Sports Illustrated photos.

Click here, here and here (Askmen.com) to see more photos of Jessica Gomes.

From Wikipedia,
Jessica Gomes is an Australian model of Singaporean Chinese and Portuguese heritage who appeared in the 2008 Swimsuit Issue of the United States–published magazine Sports Illustrated. She was featured in a bodypainting layout as a canvas for bodypaint artist Joanne Gair, who is in her tenth year of producing bodypaint art for the Swimsuit Issue. She was part of a record group of seven "rookie" Swimsuit Issue models, along with Quiana Grant, Melissa Haro, Yasmin Brunet, Melissa Baker, Jeisa Chiminazzo and Jarah Mariano.




More about Jessica Gomes here (Chickipedia) and here (Wikipedia).

Wednesday, 21 January 2009

of father uses daughter as model for nude painting

女儿给父亲当裸模续 (组图/慎入)
引起争议的是李壮平父女的油画作品《东方神女山鬼系列》,画里的裸体模特是李壮平的亲生女儿。对此,美术批评家林木教授认为,李家父女为人体模特这种艺术方式提供了一个新方向和思考,是非常可敬的。伦理专家、博士生导师、陕师大政治经济学院副院长袁祖社则表示,从伦理学角度看,李壮平的行为是不当的,引起的社会性伦理效应是相对负面的。


Click here to see the paintings (NSFW).

Monday, 19 January 2009

Thursday, 18 December 2008

of khoda - over 6000 paintings used in this video

Khoda: Over 6000 paintings used to create this animated thriller
What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards. Khoda is a psychological thriller; a student project which was seen as a ‘mission impossible’ by many people but eventually proved possib More..le!

Director and art director: Reza Dolatabadi
Written by Reza Dolatabadi & Mark Szalos Farkas
Animation by Adam Thomson
Music by Hamed Mafakheri

Click on image to watch the video

Saturday, 22 November 2008

of face painting in motion

Face painting art in motion: Watch Big Boy move and come to life as i move my face! Artist James Kuhn face painting art.


Click on image to watch the video

Friday, 29 August 2008

of the naked painter

The Naked Painter (NSFW)
I offer a professional naturist painting service with over 17 years experience. I am a keen naturist and enjoy working as such, when possible. As a small business, I am able to provide all of my customers with a friendly and personalised service. All work is carried out to your specifications and complete satisfaction. With a high level of competence, you can be assured of a professional job.

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

of the $20,000 lee kuan yew picture bottle

$20,000 FOR THIS BOTTLE: 46-year-old Dong Xue, China's best-known portrait painters, paints the portraits of MM Lee and Mrs Lee on snuff bottle.
Take the valuable snuff bottles, painted with extreme precision by China artist Dong Xue. They feature Mao Zedong, Princess Diana, Teresa Teng, Queen Elizabeth, on one side with some floral designs on the reverse. Except for this precious one, worth $20,000. A Singaporean collector requested that the crystal snuff bottle be painted with the likeness of Mr Lee Kuan Yew on one side and Mrs Lee Kuan Yew on the other side.

Anything to do with copyright costs?

Mr Ng Geok Soon, of Dong Lee Investment, the exhibitors, said: 'None involved. There's no image copyright for this, in painting.' The laughing portraits of Mr and Mrs Lee meticulously painted inside the 8x5cm bottles were chosen from a book and a website. 'The artist selected his favourite photos of the couple which the collector, a Mr T, was happy with,' said Mr Ng.

Dong Xue, 46, from Hebei, is one of China's best-known portrait painters. He has not met Mr and Mrs Lee before but has 'great respect for Lee Kuan Yew's leadership, taking Singapore from poverty to this stage'.

Monday, 23 June 2008

of travel to 7 continents

My Imaginary Travels asks,
There are lots of bloggers in this world. I wondering in which continents most of the bloggers live. So, I am challenging all the bloggers to do this tag. Let's see how far we can get with all of bloggers in those 7 continents.

Counting start begin...............
Here's what you need to do:

~Begin Copy~

Rules :

1. Start Copy from "Begin Copy" until "End Copy".
2. Put your blog's name and url write in which continent you live, add the country you live in. Example : My Imaginary Travels (Netherlands)
3. Leave your url post in here and I'll add you to the Master List.
4. Please help spread this tag by tagging your friends as much as you can.
5. Don't play unfair! If you have more than 1 blog, you can participate all your blogs for this tag. BUT you will have to post this tag to all your blogs as well. So, please. Don't cheat!
6. Please come back again to copy the update of the master list, often. This process will help new participants to get the same gains as the first participants.
7. Don't forget to use the banner at your post, you can save as or you can just copy the code in here.

Master List :

A. Asia : 1. Moms... Check Nyo (Philippines) 2. Aeirin's Collections (Philippines) 3. Jenny and Belle(Philippines) 4. Hailey's Beats and Bits (Philippines) 5. Appleofmyeyes(Saudi Arabia) 6. Deranged Insanity (Philippines) 7. PROJECT HEAVY TRAFFIC (Singapore) 8. Rooms of My Heart (Indonesia) 9. Blessings and Beyond (Philippines) 10. lancerlord (Singapore) 11. allinkorea (Korea) 12. kimchiland (Korea) 13. korean food (Korea) 14. idealpinkrose (Korea) 15. Pinay Mommy Online (Philippines) 16. Momhood Moments (Philippines) 17. Business Mars (Philippines) 18. Maiylah’s Snippets (Philippines) 19. Picture Clusters (Philippines) 20. My Wanderings (Philippines) 21. Hit-or-Miss (Philippines) 22. Life Quest (Philippines) 23. FunFierceFabulous (Phils) 24. and Life Goes On for... (Philippines) 25. Moments of Colours (Philippines) 26. Making sense… (somehow) (Philippines) 27. Day To Day (Philippines) 28. My Happy Place 29. Me and Mine (Japan) 30. Little Peanut (Japan) 31. Creative In Me (Japan) 32. Pea in a Pod (Japan) 33. A Slice of Life (Phils) 34. Jenny Said So (Phils) 35. Live it Up... (Philippines) 36. A Sweet Taste Of Life (Philippines) 37. Through The Rain (Philippines) 38. Sugarmagnolias (Japan) 39. ParentZine育兒好好玩 (Singapore) 40. We are Family (PH) 41. Reference Notes (Hong Kong) 42. The Sweet Life 43. A Great Pleasure (Malaysia) 44. Lalaine's World ( Thailand) 45. Proud Mommy (Philippines) 46. Petty Ramblings of a Petty Queen(Malaysia) 47. The Real Deal (Malaysia) 48. My Sweet Escape (Malaysia) 49. Mommy Earns Money Online (Philippines) 50. Pexlinks Triple Love (Philippines) 51. OnlineBiz and Resources (Philippines) 52. LadyJava's Lounge (Malaysia) 53. LadyJava Life's Pages (Malaysia) 54. Being Woman (Malaysia), 55. Cat Tales (Malaysia) 56. Make Money Online (Malaysia) 57. LadyJava's Food Paradise (Malaysia) 58. Lourdes' Mia (Philippines) 59. Miss Write (Philippines) 60. Me, Myself+2 (Phils) 61. Moments of My Life 62. My Deepest & Honest Thoughts (Malaysia) 63. Crissy's Haven 64. Strangely Out of Place (Philippines) 65. Frozen Moments (India) 66. NER: Never Ending Resolve (Philippines) 67. Mindjuice in Full Throttle 68. Straight from the Heart 69. Creative Thoughts (Philippines) 70. Emila’s Illustrated Blog 71. WilStop (Philippines), 72. Alanzain-home decor world (Malaysia) 73. Let's talk-everything in one space (Malaysia) 74. Tiklaton (Pilipinas) 75. Digiscraptology (Philippines) 76. A Life in Bloom (Philippines) 77. Because Life is a Blessing (Philippines) 78. Day to Day Miracles 79. Budget Traveler 80. The Success (Indonesia) 81. Lets Travel Philippines (Philippines) 82. enlaceré. tordu. (Singapore) 83.Blessings in Life (Philippines) 84. Tere’s World (Philippines) 85. Journey in Life (Philippines) 86. Thoughts and Beyond (Philippines) 87. your turn

B. Australia : 1. Reflexes (Australia) 2. Emcee 3. Outback-Pinay 4. Collect and Connect (Australia) 5. your turn

C. Afrika : 1. Doudy Sketche Watercolor Paintings 2. Optimizing for Search Engines 3. Painting Artworks 4. your turn

D. North Amerika : 1. Simple Life, Simply Me (USA) 2. Pinaymama's Diary (USA) 3. 3 Garnets & 2 Sapphires (United States) 4.Traipsey Turvey (USA) 5. Dabawenyako (USA) 6. Icelog (USA) 6. The Misadventures of an Ordinary Housewife (USA) 7. It Is Nap Time (US) 8.A Mother's Journal (USA) 9. Journey And Journal [USA] 10. Life is good and beautiful (USA) 11. Tasteful Voyage (USA) 12. Jenny's Wandering Thoughts (USA) 13. Mom Knows Everything (Canada) 14. Filipino love stories (USA) 15. A Mom's Note (USA) 16. Life with the Two Crazy Dogs 17. BLOGSILOG (USA) 18. Juliana’s World ( New York, USA) 19. My Daily Discourse (USA) 20. My Point Of View 21. My Blog Entry (USA) 22. This Side of Eternity (MI, USA) 23. The Paper Vision (USA) 24.Beyond Being A Mom(USA) 25.My So called life(USA) your turn

E. South Amerika : 1. your turn

F. Europe : 1. My Imaginary Travels (Netherlands) 2. Juliana's Site (Netherlands) 3. Picturing of Life (Netherlands) 4. SuperMae (Portugal) 5. The Callalily Space (The Netherlands) 6. Portia (UK) 7. Daily Grind (Germany) 8. Amel's Realm (Finland) 9. Mummy Diaries (England) 10. your turn

G. Antarctica : 1. your turn

~ End Copy ~

I am tagging : Everyone



[via Deranged Insanity]

Sunday, 22 June 2008

of i heart singapore

singapore black knights
Heart by the Black Knights

According to this (pdf),
The Heart symbolises the "Spirit of Compassion" as the Black Knights will be painting the shape of a heart to represent the RSAF's HADR* effort.
* humanitarian assistance and disaster relief

[via gurms]

Sunday, 15 June 2008

of photoshopping jack sparrow

Jack Sparrow - Pirate of Caribbean speed painting
Learn how to paint a pirate out of a skull. Digital speed painting of Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) with: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Wacom Intuos3 A4 Recorded with: autoScreenRecorder 2.0 Free Produced with: Adobe After Effects about 3 hours painting about 3

Learn how to draw at 5min.com

Saturday, 27 October 2007

of super hi-res photo of the last supper (16 billion pixels)

last supper 16 billion pixelsThe Last Supper In Detail: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci has been transformed into a super duper hi-res photo. Starting today The Last Supper will travel on the internet at 16 billion pixels. -


The online visualisation system of the highest definition photograph ever in the world (16 billion pixels) will in fact let viewers enlarge and observe any portion of the painting, giving them a clear view of sections down to as little as one millimetre square.

Click here to view the Hi-res photo.

[via The Van Der Galiën Gazette]